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Kenilworth LRT Tunnel in Minneapolis.
Metropolitan Council
It's what passes for excellent news for a transportation construction project that is usually prefaced with the word “troubled.”
The managers of the Southwest Light Rail Transit project now are saying that the most recent...
In a photograph from Dec. 3, 2023, the West Lake Street Station on the Southwest Light Rail extension stays under construction.
MinnPost photo by H. Jiahong Pan
The Southwest Light Rail Transit project has faced its share of tribulations. Cost overruns....
Light rail track shown within the Highway 62 LRT tunnel.
Metropolitan Council
Welcome to the Glean, MinnPost’s twice-daily roundup of Minnesota news.
Janet Moore on the Star Tribune reports Jim Alexander, the project director for the Southwest light rail line, informed the...
Two white-tail bucks, recently spotted at Fort Snelling State Park, should have the ability to benefit from the sunshine that the Twin Cities office of the National Weather Service predicts will return on Friday. The projected high is 41.
As...
Using private contractors relatively than Metro Transit staff is a change in plans from what had been envisioned for the reason that Legislature approved a transit safety plan in May.
MinnPost file photo by Peter Callaghan
Metro Transit will engage a...
Will Cobb cutting hair at This Is It Sports Barbershop.
Andrew Tellijohn
Xavier McKinney got a bit greater than he bargained for when he stopped in at This Is It Sports Barbershop, 2659 Penn Ave. N., Tuesday morning.
The north Minneapolis resident’s...
Light rail stations like Victoria Street in St. Paul are “split” on either side of intersections, extend across two full city blocks on either side of the tracks, and have low barriers by design.
MinnPost photo by Bill Lindeke
A transportation...
A pedestrian was struck by and trapped under a Green Line light rail train in St. Paul on Friday morning.
The incident, which resulted in serious injuries, occurred at University and Western avenues around 11:15 a.m., in response to Metro...
Met Council faces a bipartisan crisis of confidence, with each Republicans and DFLers within the state Legislature lambasting the agency over massive cost overruns, poor transparency and a scarcity of accountability on the Southwest project.
MinnPost photo by Peter Callaghan
Members...
Longtime St. Paul Democratic U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum is in search of one other term in Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional District and again faces May...
